Dr. Do Diddily and the Dee - Dot'sInvite you to France and her Countryside
France - Monaco - Corsica
Alsace - Aquitaine - Auvergne - - Brittany - Burgandy - Champagne Ardenne
Lorraine - Midi Pyrenees - Lower Normandy - North Calais - Picardy
Paris-Isle-of-France - Rhone Alps - Upper Normandy - Provence-Alpes - Côte d'Azur, etc.
THE CRUMPLED ROSE-LEAF AND THE REAL PRINCESS
Her Majesty went softly to make the stranger's bed,
And took a crumpled rose-leaf, a leaf of old Jacqueminot,
A scented sweet Jacqueminot, and shook a cunning head.
She hid it in the mattress, and over it she spread
Forty layers of swan's down, and twenty quilts of goose's down,
And shook them up and shook them down, to make them light, she said.
She laid upon this mountain her sheets of finest thread,
And three-and-thirty blankets, the whitest Witney blankets,
From all the thickest fleeces, the land of Sussex bred;
And over that a cover that fragrant odours shed,
Above the snowy pillows, , the lightest puffy pillows,
The softest pillows ever known; to make her sleep she said.The Queen came in next morning: "How did you rest ?" she said.
The stranger told her sadly, and showed a host of bruises,
Across her slender shoulders and down her back they spread
Like petals of Jacqueminot so satin-soft and red.
She wept, the weary Princess: "Oh, oh ! I am so sleepy !
I wish I hadn't stayed with you, it's such a horrid bed !"...
A half-hardy, deep crimson rose of the remontant class; - so named after General Jacqueminot, of France.
Jean François Jacqueminot, viscount of Ham (1787–1865) was a French General.He was born at Nancy, studied at the École Militaire, entered the army in 1803, and , distinguished himself at the battles of Austerlitz, Essling, Wagram, and the Beresina. In 1814 he was promoted colonel. When Napoleon returned from Elba, Jacqueminot was made commander of lancers. He made a brilliant charge at Quatre Bras and after Waterloo refused transfer to the service of the Bourbons, was imprisoned for a month. After his release, Jacqueminot established at Bar-le-Duca great silk factory, which gave employment to many of the veterans of
the French Imperial Army. Elected to the House of Deputies in 1827, he
joined in the protest of the Two Hundred and Twenty-one against Polignac, and with Pajol directed the Rambouillet expedition which led Charles X to leave France. In 1842 he succeeded Chaud as commander of the National Guards of the Seine. Louis Philippe made him Viscount in 1846. His indecision at the head of the Guards made possible the revolution of 1848, and he was retired in that year.
He died 78, years old, in 1865.
